Adding a script to run Ansible within the guest machine when running a Windows host. Ansible does not currently support Windows as the control machine.

Author: crankeye

Vagrantfile

@@ -25,8 +25,13 @@ Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
   # forward SSH keys
   config.ssh.forward_agent = true
 
-  # provisioning with ansible
-  config.vm.provision :ansible do |ansible|
-    ansible.playbook = "./vagrant/playbook.yml"
-  end
+  if (/cygwin|mswin|mingw|bccwin|wince|emx/ =~ RUBY_PLATFORM)
+    # provisioning with ansible on windows
+    config.vm.provision "shell", path: "./vagrant/ansible-windows.sh"
+  else
+    # provisioning with ansible
+    config.vm.provision :ansible do |ansible|
+      ansible.playbook = "./vagrant/playbook.yml"
+    end
+  end 
 end

vagrant/ansible-windows.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+echo "Installing/Updating Ansible..."
+apt-get update -qq && apt-get install ansible -y -qq
+COUNT_HOSTS=`grep \\\[precise64\\\] /etc/ansible/hosts -c`
+if [ $COUNT_HOSTS -lt 1 ]; then
+	printf "\n[precise64] \n127.0.0.1 ansible_connection=local\n" > /etc/ansible/hosts
+fi
+echo "Running Ansible playbook..."
+ansible-playbook /vagrant/vagrant/playbook.yml